Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?

Jens_Daniel Persson wrote:
> In swedish plural of 'man' (=man) is 'män' (the middle letter is supposed to
> be an 'a' with dots; perhaps it shows up strange on your computer).
I believe that's a general Germanic phenomenon, occuring in the original
proto-Germanic.  Altho a number of the words have been regularized, like
books (not beech) and cows (not kyne).  Afrikaans has, I believe,
regularized your example to something like "mans"

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